More HPSF documentation

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.1//EN"
"../dtd/document-v11.dtd">
<!-- $Id$ -->
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/* Print a single section: */
Section sec = (Section) i.next();
// ...
// See below for the complete loop body.
}</source>
<p>The <code>PropertySet</code>'s method <code>getSectionCount()</code>
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method. This method returns a <code>java.util.List</code> containing
instances of the <code>Section</code> class in their proper order.</p>
<p>The sample code shows a loop that retrieves the <code>Section</code>
objects one by one and prints some information about each one. Here is the
complete body of the loop:</p>
<source>/* Print a single section: */
Section sec = (Section) i.next();
out(" Section " + nr++ + ":");
String s = hex(sec.getFormatID().getBytes());
s = s.substring(0, s.length() - 1);
out(" Format ID: " + s);
/* Print the number of properties in this section. */
int propertyCount = sec.getPropertyCount();
out(" No. of properties: " + propertyCount);
/* Print the properties: */
Property[] properties = sec.getProperties();
for (int i2 = 0; i2 &lt; properties.length; i2++)
{
/* Print a single property: */
Property p = properties[i2];
int id = p.getID();
long type = p.getType();
Object value = p.getValue();
out(" Property ID: " + id + ", type: " + type +
", value: " + value);
}</source>
<p>The first method called on the <code>Section</code> instance is
<code>getFormatID()</code>. As explained above, the format ID of the first
section in a property set determines the type of the property set. Its
type is <code>ClassID</code> which is essentially a sequence of 16
bytes. A real application using its own type of a custom property set
should have defined a unique format ID and, when reading a property set
stream, should check the format ID is equal to that unique format ID. The
sample program just prints the format ID it finds in a section:</p>
<source>String s = hex(sec.getFormatID().getBytes());
s = s.substring(0, s.length() - 1);
out(" Format ID: " + s);</source>
<p>As you can see, the <code>getFormatID()</code> method returns a
<code>ClassID</code> object. An array containing the bytes can be
retrieved with <code>ClassID.getBytes()</code>. In order to get a nicely
formatted printout, the sample program uses the <code>hex()</code> helper
method which in turn uses the POI utility class <code>HexDump</code> in
the <code>org.apache.poi.util</code> package. Another helper method is
<code>out()</code> which just saves typing
<code>System.out.println()</code>.</p>
<p>Before getting the properties, it is possible to find out how many
properties are available in the section via the
<code>Section.getPropertyCount()</code>. The sample application uses this
method to print the number of properties to the standard output:</p>
<source>int propertyCount = sec.getPropertyCount();
out(" No. of properties: " + propertyCount);</source>
<p>Now its time to get to the properties themselves. You can retrieve a
section's properties with the method
<code>Section.getProperties()</code>:</p>
<source>Property[] properties = sec.getProperties();</source>
<p>As you can see the result is an array of <code>Property</code>
objects. This class has three methods to retrieve a property's ID, its
type, and its value. The following code snippet shows how to call
them:</p>
<source>for (int i2 = 0; i2 &lt; properties.length; i2++)
{
/* Print a single property: */
Property p = properties[i2];
int id = p.getID();
long type = p.getType();
Object value = p.getValue();
out(" Property ID: " + id + ", type: " + type +
", value: " + value);
}</source>
<p>The output of the sample program might look like the following. It shows
the summary information and the document summary information property sets
of a Microsoft Word document. However, unlike the first and second section
of this HOW-TO the application does not have any code which is specific to
the <code>SummaryInformation</code> and
<code>DocumentSummaryInformation</code> classes.</p>
<source>Property set stream "/SummaryInformation":
No. of sections: 1
Section 0:
Format ID: 00000000 F2 9F 85 E0 4F F9 10 68 AB 91 08 00 2B 27 B3 D9 ....O..h....+'..
No. of properties: 17
Property ID: 1, type: 2, value: 1252
Property ID: 2, type: 30, value: Titel
Property ID: 3, type: 30, value: Thema
Property ID: 4, type: 30, value: Rainer Klute (Autor)
Property ID: 5, type: 30, value: Test (Stichwörter)
Property ID: 6, type: 30, value: This is a document for testing HPSF
Property ID: 7, type: 30, value: Normal.dot
Property ID: 8, type: 30, value: Unknown User
Property ID: 9, type: 30, value: 3
Property ID: 18, type: 30, value: Microsoft Word 9.0
Property ID: 12, type: 64, value: Mon Jan 01 00:59:25 CET 1601
Property ID: 13, type: 64, value: Thu Jul 18 16:22:00 CEST 2002
Property ID: 14, type: 3, value: 1
Property ID: 15, type: 3, value: 20
Property ID: 16, type: 3, value: 93
Property ID: 19, type: 3, value: 0
Property ID: 17, type: 71, value: [B@13582d
Property set stream "/DocumentSummaryInformation":
No. of sections: 2
Section 0:
Format ID: 00000000 D5 CD D5 02 2E 9C 10 1B 93 97 08 00 2B 2C F9 AE ............+,..
No. of properties: 14
Property ID: 1, type: 2, value: 1252
Property ID: 2, type: 30, value: Test
Property ID: 14, type: 30, value: Rainer Klute (Manager)
Property ID: 15, type: 30, value: Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH
Property ID: 5, type: 3, value: 3
Property ID: 6, type: 3, value: 2
Property ID: 17, type: 3, value: 111
Property ID: 23, type: 3, value: 592636
Property ID: 11, type: 11, value: false
Property ID: 16, type: 11, value: false
Property ID: 19, type: 11, value: false
Property ID: 22, type: 11, value: false
Property ID: 13, type: 4126, value: [B@56a499
Property ID: 12, type: 4108, value: [B@506411
Section 1:
Format ID: 00000000 D5 CD D5 05 2E 9C 10 1B 93 97 08 00 2B 2C F9 AE ............+,..
No. of properties: 7
Property ID: 0, type: 0, value: {6=Test-JaNein, 5=Test-Zahl, 4=Test-Datum, 3=Test-Text, 2=_PID_LINKBASE}
Property ID: 1, type: 2, value: 1252
Property ID: 2, type: 65, value: [B@c9ba38
Property ID: 3, type: 30, value: This is some text.
Property ID: 4, type: 64, value: Wed Jul 17 00:00:00 CEST 2002
Property ID: 5, type: 3, value: 27
Property ID: 6, type: 11, value: true
No property set stream: "/WordDocument"
No property set stream: "/CompObj"
No property set stream: "/1Table"</source>
<p>There are some interestion items to note:</p>
<ul>
<li>The first property set (summary information) consists of a single
section, the second property set (document summary information) consists
of two sections.</li>
<li>Each section type (identified by its format ID) has its own domain of
property ID. For example, in the second property set the properties with
ID 2 have different meanings in the two section. By the way, the format
IDs of these sections are <strong>not</strong> equal, but you have to
look hard to find the difference.</li>
<li>The properties are not in any particular order in the section,
although they slightly tend to be sorted by their IDs.</li>
</ul>
<note>[To be continued.]</note>
<note>A last note: There are still some aspects of HSPF left which are not
documented in this HOW-TO. You should dig into the Javadoc API
documentation to learn further details. Since you struggled through this
document up to this point, you are well prepared.</note>
</section>
</section>
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<p>The following functionalities should be added to HPFS:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Complete writing the HPSF documentation.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Write up some junit tests.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Add writing capability for property sets.</p>
</li>